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  The longest word in the dictionary It might be “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” (which appears in the Oxford English Dictionary), unless you want to count names of diseases (such as “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcano coniosis,” defined by the OED as ‘a factitious word alleged to mean ‘a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very

How many words are in the English languageThere are about a million English words, maybe more. It is hard to see how even a conservative estimate of English vocabulary could go much below a million words. If you allow all of scientific nomenclature, this could easily double the figure. For

Are there any English words that have no vowelsThe answer to this depends what you mean by “vowel” and “word.” There are two things we mean by the word “vowel”: a speech sound made with the vocal tract open or a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel.